The Redeemer Fails the Test

“Then the redeemer said, ‘I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance. You redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem it.’”

The redeemer would have liked to have added field to field to increase his own lot of inheritance, but when it became a question of raising up someone else’s lot of inheritance on their field, he could not follow along. “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance.”

That is true. If we are to walk on the way of obedience according to God’s will, we will ruin our own lot of inheritance, i.e., our lot of inheritance according to the mind of the flesh. A vain person has much to watch out for and to preserve. Therefore if “I” do not keep an eye on everything, things will fall apart. How dead, empty, and meaningless all worship of God becomes under the care of this big “I.” One almost has the feeling of being choked. Thus if “I” don’t look after my own lot of inheritance, then “I” lose everything. In all this, “I” do not understand that it is God who establishes and confirms the soul on his own lot of inheritance, if he has the mind to confirm someone else on his lot of inheritance.

This redeemer did not dare to do God’s will, because in his view everything that he loved and wanted to preserve would be ruined. He said, “You redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem it.”